‘World’s First!!’ USB 3.0 Hard Drive

Remember those nearly pointless USB 3.0 cables one could buy way back in the golden days of April? If you were one of those who bought one by mistake or merely wanted to use its USB 2.0 speed until you had an actual 3.0 device and controller, now is your chance. Buffalo is offering what they claim to be the “world’s first!!” shipping USB 3.0 hard drive in delicious 1TB and 1.5TB flavors come late this month, and a 2TB model is in the works. Since one would obviously need a controller as they don’t come standard on motherboards just yet, the company is also offering one of NEC’s world-firsts: the handy dandy USB 3.0 controller. Together these’ll cost you over US$285 at the very least, but sometimes you just have to have shiny pieces of the world’s first [place name here] before anyone else.

I would suggest you stick with Firewire. The beauty of that is the little unknown fact by many. If you plug a Firewire 3200 device into a Firewire 800 port, it runs at Firewire 3200 speeds! Why?? Because the firewire implementation sits in the hardware device, not on the PC motherboard. Firewire devices can talk to each other without a PC being involved. eg: You can let your Firewire video recorder talk to a firewire harddrive without the need for a PC.

Much better deal thank you! Plus you don’t have the CPU overhead like you do with USB. Firewire is way better in this regard.

I would suggest you stick with Firewire. The beauty of that is the little unknown fact by many. If you plug a Firewire 3200 device into a Firewire 800 port, it runs at Firewire 3200 speeds! Why?? Because the firewire implementation sits in the hardware device, not on the PC motherboard. Firewire devices can talk to each other without a PC being involved. eg: You can let your Firewire video recorder talk to a firewire harddrive without the need for a PC.

Much better deal thank you! Plus you don’t have the CPU overhead like you do with USB. Firewire is way better in this regard.

Yeah – it’s so much better, in fact, that you can easily compromise any computer system via this magical firewire port due to it’s direct access to the system memory.

Now they just need to make a practical wireless power source for all of these wireless devices.

Well, how do you look at “practical”? There are several wireless electricity techniques, the best of them only require a small device in the wall outlet and an even smaller receiver in the other end. They also don’t seem to have any negative impacts on health or any nearby radio devices, and are very stable. The downside though is that it loses 40% of power in transit over the air…